Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. - One is known as an oasis of Southern charm and history, drawing millions of tourists with its time-capsule collection of antebellum homes and marble monuments. The other is a faded rus...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday stayed a permanent injunction to throw out the Texas law requiring voters to present an accepted photo identification card. By a 2-1 vote, the ...

LONDON - With 18 months until Britain is due to leave the European Union, the U.K. government warned lawmakers on Thursday that it would be “reckless” to oppose a key piece of Brexit legis...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Georgia’s governor on Thursday ordered nearly 540,000 coastal residents to evacuate inland ahead of Hurricane Irma as authorities warned the storm had the potential to strike as ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. - Hurricane Irma’s size and strength put the entire state of Florida on notice Tuesday, and residents and visitors prepared to leave in anticipation of catastrophic winds and flo...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - The U.N. said that an “alarming number” of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks. The new...

JOHANNESBURG - South Sudan says it is asking the United States to reconsider the sanctions it has imposed on two senior government members, a former official and three companies. Foreign ministry spok...

TROUTDALE, Ore. - A growing Oregon wildfire covered parts of Portland’s metropolitan area Tuesday with ash and forced the shutdown of a lengthy stretch of highway through the state’s sceni...

A look at the impact of Hurricane Irma on individual countries and territories as it tears across the Caribbean: ANGUILLA One death was reported in the British territory of Anguilla, which also suffer...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally intervened to bar an Al-Jazeera journalist from a government conference on press freedoms that uses the pan-Arab broadcaster as a c...